Новости за 13.01.2020

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — As top-seeded Baltimore approached its playoff opener last week, linebacker Josh Bynes was asked to compare the current edition of the Ravens to the Super Bowl champions of 2012. Bynes, who played 10 games for the 2012 champs, replied, “That team is special, and this team is special. But we won

BIRMINGHAM, England — Aston Villa signed former Spain and Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina on loan from AC Milan until the end of the season on Monday. Villa, which is in the relegation zone in the English Premier League, made the move for the 37-year-old Reina after first-choice goalkeeper Tom Heaton was ruled out for the

TORONTO — Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said Monday that Iranian officials have invited it to participate in analysis of the voice and flight data recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by a missile that killed 176 people including 57 Canadians. TSB Chair Kathy Fox said Iran has invited the agency to take part as

MEXICO CITY — An 11-year-old boy who killed his teacher and himself and wounded six others in a northern Mexico school shooting used his grandfather’s guns in the attack, officials said Monday. Coahuila state Attorney General Gerardo Márquez Guevara told reporters that authorities would finish their preliminary investigation before deciding if the grandfather will face

TRENTON, N.J. — The prospects of a vote on legislation to eliminate most religious exemptions for vaccines for schoolchildren in New Jersey looked uncertain Monday, according to the bill’s sponsor, as opponents crowded the Statehouse grounds with flags, bullhorns and banners. The Democrat-led Assembly and Senate were expected to vote on the legislation during a

DOVER, Del. — Delaware’s Supreme Court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit against ride-hailing company Uber and its former CEO. The court on Monday affirmed the judge’s April ruling that the suit must be dismissed because the shareholder had failed to demand that Uber’s board of directors take action itself before he

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand fan who racially abused England fast bowler Jofra Archer during a test match at Tauranga in November has been banned from domestic and international matches in New Zealand for two years. New Zealand Cricket said the 28-year-old Auckland man admitted responsibility after being identified by a police investigation.

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have lost defenseman Morgan Rielly for at least eight weeks with a fractured foot. Rielly blocked a shot in the first period of Sunday night’s 8-4 loss in Florida but managed to finish the game. Teenage defenseman Rasmus Sandin was called up from the American Hockey League in a

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois legislator wants the state to set aside reserved parking spots for expectant mothers and parents with a newborn child at the Capitol Complex. Rep. Katie Stuart, an Edwardsville Democrat, said a pregnant lobbyist raised concerns about the issue during the last legislative session, The State Journal-Register reported. Secretary of State

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers have rejected what would have been a first-of-its-kind ban on medically unnecessary treatment for infants born with ambiguous or conflicting genitalia. The measure would have banned all procedures on intersex children 6 and under unless they were deemed medically necessary by the Medical Board of California. State Sen. Scott Wiener,

“The Better Liar: a Novel,” Ballantine Books, by Tanen Jones In Tanen Jones’ debut novel, “The Better Liar,” Leslie Voigt Flores must reunite with her estranged sister, Robin, to claim a joint inheritance from their father. However, when she arrives at Robin’s Las Vegas apartment, she finds that she is dead. Desperate to get her

NEWARK, N.J. — The two people who stormed a kosher grocery in Jersey City and killed three people planned an assault for some time and were involved in another shooting of a Jewish person a week earlier, authorities said Monday. State and federal law enforcement officials revealed details about the months leading up to the

The Women’s World Cup champion U.S. team will face Spain and England, two teams it defeated on the way to the title, as well as Japan in the fifth annual SheBelieves Cup kicking off in March. Doubleheader matches in the round robin-style tournament will be held in Orlando, Florida, on March 5, in Harrison, New

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Marcus Lattimore is leaving his position as South Carolina football’s director of player development after two years in the job. Lattimore is the Gamecocks’ former record-setting running back who led the team to its only Southeastern Conference Eastern Division title as a freshman in 2010 and was considered a can’t-miss NFL prospect.

LISLE, Ill. — Police near Chicago say advances in DNA testing have helped them solve the case of a 16-year-old girl who was strangled in 1976. Lisle police said in a Facebook post that they would detail the new findings in the death of Pamela Maurer during a news conference later Monday, which was 44

RALEIGH, N.C. — A former North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper accused of involvement in a 2018 beating and K9 attack on a homeless man has been convicted of misdemeanor charges in the case. Michael Blake pleaded guilty to two counts of willful failure to discharge his duties, news outlets reported Monday. As part of

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has won the 2020 Athletes in Action/Bart Starr Award. The award is given to an NFL player who best exemplifies outstanding character and leadership in the home, on the field and in the community. The league’s players decided the winner from 10 finalists and the

The U.S. budget deficit through the first three months of this budget year is up 11.8% from the same period a year ago, putting the country on track to record its first $1 trillion deficit in eight years. In its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department said Monday that the deficit from October through December

NEW ORLEANS — The latest from the College Football Playoff championship game between No. 1 LSU and No. 3 Clemson (all times CST): 1 p.m. A thick fog settled over the site of the College Football Playoff championship game on Monday. There will be clarity at the top of the sport, though, after top-ranked LSU

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The force was strong enough at an Arizona store to reunite Luke Skywalker with his long-lost vinyl record. Actor Mark Hamill is praising workers at Bookmans Entertainment Exchange in Flagstaff for returning the “Star Wars: A New Hope” soundtrack that had been a gift from film composer John Williams. Hamill said in

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a jubilant locker room after the Kansas City Chiefs had thumped Houston to return to the AFC title game, defensive end Frank Clark thought back to a humiliating loss to the Texans midway through the regular season. “Last time they were here they beat us, just smacked us in our

MILAN — Milan designers continued their exploration of the shifting roles and representations of men in changing times. The design language during Milan Fashion Week veered from androgyny to gender-less to hybrid — but always against a backdrop of unmistakable masculinity, just enough elements to turn the feminine heat up or down. The overall trend

SAO PAULO — The Academy Award nomination for a Brazilian documentary about the impeachment of then-President Dilma Rousseff has once again laid bare the polarization of Latin America’s largest democracy. In “The Edge of Democracy,” 36-year-old filmmaker Petra Costa uses her personal story to argue that Brazil’s democracy is at risk after the abrupt end

JERUSALEM — Two global pioneers of modern gene-editing technology were awarded Monday Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize in medicine. The Wolf Foundation said it was recognizing Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work in developing the gene-editing tool CRISPR. Their research has the potential to “revolutionize medicine by paving the way to finding new forms

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s center-right government ordered the removal of anti-abortion posters put up Monday in Athens underground billboards under a paid public awareness campaign by a pro-life group. A transport ministry statement said the posters, which carried the slogan “Choose life” under a picture of an unborn fetus, target women’s “legally protected and indisputable